As the federal government continues to rapidly acquire AI technology, a government watchdog has found that its fallen short on documenting best practices and learning lessons along the way. 👀

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Matt Bracken 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/agency-ai-pr...

The Center for Civic Futures and Recoding America Fund are giving out $10M to answer this question: Can AI reshape how states manage vendors? 🔍

Full scoop from @statescoop.bsky.social's @colinwood.me 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/center-civic...

AI's next use case? Automated target recognition tech to detect explosive hazards, battlefield obstacles for the Army. 🪖

Full scoop from @defensescoop.bsky.social's Jon Harper 📰 ➡️ defensescoop.com/2026/04/08/a...

OMB gave every agency more than a year to implement risk management practices for high-impact AI use cases. @fedscoop.bsky.social reached out to 28 federal agencies for an update. 👀 🔍 🤖

Full scoop from Lindsey Wilkinson 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/federal-agen...

Here's another example of how attackers weaponize AI in a way that current defenses cannot keep up with: meet GrafanaGhost. 👻

This exploit silently steals sensitive data bypassing the platform’s AI model guardrails.

@cyberscoop.bsky.social @gregotto.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/grafanaghost...

As the White House pushes forward on implementing its sweeping artificial intelligence policies, a bipartisan pair of swing-state lawmakers are urging the administration to make sure the U.S. workforce isn’t left behind. 💼 🤖

@fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/federal-ai-p...

The Department of Health and Human Services is reshuffling its top officials for data, AI, and technology back under its chief information officer, undoing a 2024 reorganization of those roles under the Biden administration. 👀

@fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/hhs-reverses...

A new bipartisan bill would task the FTC with making sure the data and algorithms behind models are made public. 🔍

This is especially important in sectors like housing, employment, medicine and more. 😬

@fedscoop.bsky.social p 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/ftc-enforcem...

Despite mounting pressure to adopt and deploy chatbots, the Department of Transportation is looking at modernization first. 🤖

It's focused on streamlining a sprawling 60-application environment into a seven-platform spread. 😬

@fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/transportati...

New Jersey launched its own internal AI assistant in 2024, and now, 300,000 sessions and 1 million prompts later, it's launched a 2.0 version. 🤖

Full scoop from @statescoop.bsky.social's @keelyquinlan.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/new-jersey-r...

@cyberscoop.bsky.social's @derekbjohnson.bsky.social's reporting this year has a clear theme: AI is accelerating cyber crime. 😬 🫨

Learn more about the latest credential-stealing campaign that used AI to build evasion at every stage. 📽️ ⬇️

📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/deepload-ai-...

Do you trust the government with your personal data? 🔍 👀

Well, @keelyquinlan.bsky.social outlines a recent study on this very question as the federal government continues to seek more and more data held by state governments. Learn more. 📽️ ⬇️

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Governmentwide guidance on AI from the Office of Management and Budget falls short of addressing myriad privacy-related risks agencies should take into account, according to a new watchdog report. 😬 👀

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Matt Bracken 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/omb-ai-guida...

A bipartisan bill recently introduced in the House and Senate would require the federal judiciary to study the legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of AI speech-to-text technologies in the U.S. court system. 🏛️ 🤖

@fedscoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ fedscoop.com/us-courts-wo...

The City of Baltimore has filed a lawsuit against several of Elon Musk's companies claiming the Grok chatbot does not contain sufficient guardrails to prevent the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images. 👀

@statescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/baltimore-su...

An AI-powered phishing campaign has compromised hundreds of organizations from law firms to non-profits to government and public safety organizations. 😬

Full scoop from @cyberscoop.bsky.social's @derekbjohnson.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/huntress-rai...

With an update the legal community is calling, "jaw-dropping" and "governance by sledgehammer," the General Services Administration has released a sweeping AI clause with big implications. 👀 🔎

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/gsa-extends-...

A senior DOD Cyber Crime Center official at #ElasticGovSummit said he's seeing the quantity & sophistication of digital attacks increase, a trend attributable to the emergence of new AI capabilities that can aid hackers. 👀

@defensescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ defensescoop.com/2026/03/19/d...

Can Zero Trust survive the AI era? This question was at the heart of our #ElasticGovSummit. 🔍 🚨

Full scoop from @cyberscoop.bsky.social's @derekbjohnson.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/ai-zero-trus...

Agentic AI's next use case? Potentially deep research for public health at the CDC. 🔬 🤖

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/cdc-releases...

#CDC #Disease #Research #PublicHealth #AI

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the General Services Administration are joining forces to evaluate AI tools before agencies use them in operations. 👀

Swipe ➡️ to learn more.

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/gsa-nist-eva...

An appeals court temporarily paused an order blocking Perplexity’s AI shopping agent on Amazon 👀

@derekbjohnson.bsky.social explains more 📽️ ⬇️

Full scoop from @cyberscoop.bsky.social's @gregotto.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/perplexity-c...

#AgenticAI #AI #Amazon #TechNews

Attackers are exploiting AI faster than defenders can keep up, new report warns 😬

Full scoop from @cyberscoop.bsky.social's @derekbjohnson.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/booz-allen-r...

In its 2025 AI use case inventory, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had 4 entries. 👀

HHS had nearly 450 AI use cases, DHS recorded more than 200, and the DOJ logged 315. 😬

But that number undersells the commission's use.

@fedscoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ fedscoop.com/nrc-ai-use-c...

The bipartisan Economy of the Future Commission Act seeks to deliver bipartisan policy solutions geared toward solving AI workforce challenges. 👀

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Matt Bracken 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/senate-bill-...

Tennessee state employees now have access to ChatGPT. Some are saying this tool has saved them close to a full week of work each month. 👀

@keelyquinlan.bsky.social explains how the state has deployed the technology and more. 📽️ ⬇️

Full scoop @statescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/tennessee-ch...

A bipartisan group of senators is asking Department of Labor leaders to collect, analyze and disseminate data about the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market. 👀 🤖

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/senate-data-...

The Department of Energy’s national labs are laying the groundwork for beefed-up AI infrastructure 👀

Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's @lindseywilkinson.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/doe-national...

There's a new, easy way to hijack agentic browsers: your calendar. 📆

Full scoop from @cyberscoop.bsky.social's @derekbjohnson.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/agentic-ai-b...

New York is considering a bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal and medical advice. 🤖 🚨

Full scoop from @statescoop.bsky.social's @keelyquinlan.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/new-york-bil...